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Polisario Front vowed to continue its fight for Western Sahara’s independence

THE Polisario Front called today for international solidarity with Western Sahara’s independence struggle as the movement vowed to continue its fight for self-determination.

Bouchraya Bachir, Polisario representative for the European Union, was speaking at a youth gathering in Spain when he decried Morocco’s failure to hold a promised independence referendum.

This, he pointed out, was a major part of a United Nations-brokered ceasefire agreement signed by the Polisario Front and Rabat in 1991.

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